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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780374530754
ISBN: 0374530750
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: March 20, 2007
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date: March 20, 2007
Sales Rank: 1008193
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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For decades readers and critics have acclaimed Yves Bonnefoy as France's greatest living poet. His most recent book of verse, The Curved Planks, crowns an oeuvre that has won him the highest international honors. More than any other single work, this sequence embodies the astonishing variety of Bonnefoy's art. A rich fabric of themes, styles, and genres, it balances aesthetic complexity with heartfelt directness. This bilingual edition of The Curved Planks sets the French texts alongside English versions by the noted translator Hoyt Rogers, who has collaborated closely with Bonnefoy in crafting poems that re-create the freshness and vision of the originals. This volume also includes a preface by the renowned poet and critic Richard Howard and essays by the translator that situate The Curved Planks in the author's body of work. All assist in introducing the English-language reader to Bonnefoy's profound poetic gift.
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Rating:  - A Stripped-Down World
I first read Bonnefoy's poetry in a translation workshop a few years ago -- one of my classmates did some beautiful versions from "The house where I was born," a sequence in this book. Reading the whole book at last, I must admit to a slight disappointment -- "The house where I was born" is still a powerful sequence, I like the title poem, and the longer verse meditations generally come off well, but the shorter lyric poems don't translate. With the help of the facing pages format -- and some rudimentary ... Read More
Rating:  - "Ne cesse pas, voix proche"
It's a terrific idea to publish a bilingual edition, with the French on one page and the English facing it, so the layman can go back and compare, see what liberties Hoyt Rogers has taken with the original. And also, what a good idea if a person wanted to teach himself French! I've learned many new vocabulary words just by scouring the text two pages at a time.
Richard Howard contributes a preface that's okay, but doesn't really add anything that isn't later added, in two capacious afterwords, ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780374530754
ISBN: 0374530750
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: March 20, 2007
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date: March 20, 2007
Sales Rank: 1008193
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux